President Trump’s sweeping nuclear energy and weapons agenda has prompted revisions of longstanding radiation standards.

An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Industrial-grade buoys are being installed to prevent unauthorized crossings, but the environmental impact is unknown.

Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the center routinely perform forensic firearms identification, meaning ...

Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bancel said in January that the company, known for its Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA technology, or mRNA, doesn’t plan to invest in new, late-stage vaccine trials. He ...

Kathryn Paige Harden's "Original Sin" explores the genetic roots of sin and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.

In 1775, Washington deployed colonial soldiers who had survived smallpox to retake Boston during a city-wide epidemic.

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

When Anthony Fauci stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2022, he had been in the role for 38 years. He had served under seven different presidents ...